[gameprogrammer] Re: OTP: deleting porn - deleting, finding and moving files in windows

Um.. I don't mean to burn anyone here or continue the war of windows vs
linux but I just thought you should all know of a handy little way to
manipulate certain files in Windows since it seems to have been completely
forgotten about... (?)

To 'trash' the examples given so far to find a file with "abc" in its name
is so easy on windows my girlfriend and mother can even do it.

START | SEARCH
You will be given a range of options spelled out in plain English (no
command line switches or continually checking --help or /?) and you can
search for part of or a whole filename, you don't even need to use
wildcards. You can sort the results based on all available info just like
viewing in details mode and you then select the appropriate ones and copy,
move or delete them. Its not that difficult.

I think Windows XP was a major leap forward for Microsoft and it completely
raised my expectations for any operating system these days.

-Triston.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

AO> Actually, I was very unfortunate with this example. I should have asked
AO> for something like "deleting all the files with "abc" in any part of the
AO> name" :)

You're being ridiculous. Since '95, you've had extended wildcards so
to trash your example, you do this:

del *abc*

For your previous examples:

del *.txt

or

move *.txt <directory>

Of course, you have to do it from a command prompt but given you were
arguing about user-friendly environments, you need a shell open in
Linux too thus rendering your argument invalid.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>




---------------------
To unsubscribe go to http://gameprogrammer.com/mailinglist.html

Other related posts: